[Tagging] Tourist bus stop

[Paul Allen]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 at 10:43, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Am Mi., 11. Sept. 2019 um 04:39 Uhr schrieb Leif Rasmussen <
> 354lbr at gmail.com>:
>
> if both can stop, it is not a tourist bus stop but a regular bus stop
> where coaches can stop. I have difficulties imagining it, but I would not
> exclude the possibility.
>

I'm glad you wouldn't exclude the possibility.  There is a bus stop like
that in my town.  Occasionally
tourist buses stop there to allow passengers to board so they can go on
holiday.  As it happens,
the same company that runs the public buses around here also has a tourist
operation which
takes people in the area on holidays, tours, etc.


> Usually these tourist bus stops are set up in areas with a lot of traffic
> and few parking space, in these settings you would not want tourist busses
> to block pt bus stops, the setting where it would be imaginable are low
> density places where it doesn't matter anyway where you stop (no problem,
> next bus in 4 hours).
>

Ummm, the one here is on what is effectively the high street (and used to
be named that
many, many years ago).  Several different hourly services stop there.  It's
actually a long
"platform," long enough that two buses can stop there at once, which
sometimes happens if one
is running a little late.  So there's enough room for an ordinary bus and a
tourist bus.

The other place tourist buses stop is a public car park.  Fortunately the
annual fair (with
mobile fairground rides) that takes over the car park a few days a year
does so in November
when there aren't as many people wanting to travel.

In other places I've lived, tourist and long-distance buses shared a bus
station with ordinary
buses.

-- 
Paul
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